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How do you keep you and um Russell's
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marriage so grounded? Like you guys are
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like the epitome of what a Proverbs 31
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woman and what um um how can I say uh a
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James is like you guys are like perfect
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together. So how do y'all keep
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You know honestly speaking of the verses
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we it all always comes back to God and
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Jesus. We say Jesus at the center.
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And that's important for us because
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sometimes if you rely on man like as in
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yourself to like you know navigate
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through murky waters sometimes when the
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when the the waves start to rock a
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little bit it can get a little tricky.
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So for us it's having Jesus at the
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center you know um and like I said
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earlier it comes back to love you know
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it's like when we have a we talk about
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being equally yolked. being equally
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yolked is really important, right?
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Because I think that eliminates a lot of
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the battles you could have when you're
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not, you know, so having that place um,
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you know, or having that foundation is
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important for us, but it all comes back
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to love. It all comes back to, you know,
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Jesus at the center and communication.
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You know, communication rules a nation.
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Sometimes it's hard to communicate,
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especially when you have disagreements.
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And we're really big on, you know,
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finding ways to do it. You know, Russ
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will be the bigger person sometimes. I'm
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so stubborn. I don't want to be the
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bigger person sometimes, but I gotta be.
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Also, not going to bed mad.
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That is really important.
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One time, honestly, out of all the
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years. And now this is our 10th year
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But it's it's not it's a rare it's a
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rare sighting for that to happen in the
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Wilson household. Yeah. Like
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we don't go to bed mad. Um and I'm
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trying to think of that one time if we
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woke up and figured it out. But, you
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know, we're really big on that, you
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know, and and I'll give it to Russ as a
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man. Like, he will step up and like
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communicate, you know, and it's a
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beautiful thing to see him do that.
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Um, because I know it's hard for y'all
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men folk to really do that, too. You
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depends. It depends. For real, man. You
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going to figure it out, you know?
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You going to figure Well, you know, like
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even for me, I am stubborn, you know. I
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I'm a Scorpio, you know, like we said,
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we can't be stubborn in our ways like
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and we proud, you know, but it's like we
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gotta, you know, humble ourselves. Um,
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and just, you know, like I say, it comes
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back to Jesus. Like the fact that we can
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pray together is so huge. The fact that
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we have that understanding and
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foundation is gamechanging.
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Um, you know, it's powerful and we grow
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together spiritually, which is
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important, too. Like that deepens the
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For sure. How do you define being
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equally yolked, Cece? Like some people
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may look at it as we have to be exactly
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the same like twins. We got to make the
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same amount of money. We have to have
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the same strengths, but there's also a
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way to look at it as harmony, right?
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Yeah. It's more so like for me the
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spiritual foundation part of it, right?
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you know, we have a a equal
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understanding and foundation and desire
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to grow spiritually and our love for
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God, our love for Jesus, like we have
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that as a base foundation, but also too
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in our aspirations and the things that
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we dream of and how we want to do them.
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Like it's parallel. Like we talked about
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how when we first started, you know,
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dating and talking, we were talking
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about our dreams. We shared our dreams
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and our goals and they were in
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alignment. So it's amazing because you
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fast forward to I can get goosebumps
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thinking about it. We have our why not
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you productions you know company um
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that's based the why not you name is
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from our why not you foundation right
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and he always loved helping kids you
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know always would spend time at the
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children's hospitals I always wanted to
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do it and then I meet the love of my
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life our passions link up and now we do
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it together through our why not you
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foundation right we were able to launch
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our why not you children's book you know
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together we have a why not you charter
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school in Washington and that was our
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first academy and our goal is to create
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more. But again, doing it together, our
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why not you centers, we wanted to we
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always wanted to provide like little
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like centers and spaces for kids. And we
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kicked it off in Pittsburgh with our
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first why not you center with the Boys
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and Girls Club. I did another one. I
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launched our next one in Atlanta, which
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is the dance center. And now we're about
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to introduce three more Yu centers in
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the tri-state area, you know, while
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we're living in New York. So it goes
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back to alignment, right? Like when
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you're aligned AC in mostly every area
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to me the only way is up and it and
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eliminates you having differences. Like
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think about it right when you if two
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people come together and one just loves
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red and one loves blue and are hardcore
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about the colors right
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there. It's just you're it's going to be
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you're going to always find like I'm not
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saying like colors but you know what I'm
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going to say like the things that you
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the way you see life like principles
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like if your values if you are you have
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two different mindsets doesn't mean e
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one person is wrong or the other
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person's right it's just harder when you
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don't match in most areas in life. So
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thankfully I met my match. Like I met
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the person that if I look across him,
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he's the male version of me and vice